HN and forums have different use cases (this site is called Hacker _News_ after all). So I agree with you this format is better for HN. When discussing news lon

HN and forums have different use cases (this site is called Hacker _News_ after all). So I agree with you this format is better for HN. When discussing news longstanding discussions are not really the point, and this site is fairly strictly moderated. But that's not true for most types of discussions and communication.